377, Lot: 695. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ITALY. Julius Caesar. 100-44 BC. Cast Æ Medal (40mm, 28.04 g, 12h). Obverse by an uncertain artist; reverse after a medal by Cristoforo de Geremia. Manufactured circa 16th-19th centuries. Laureate and draped bust of Julius Caesar right; star before, lituus behind / Triumphal scene. See Baldwin’s 67, lot 2244 (for uniface examples of the obverse in bronze and lead); and Baldwin’s 74, lot 2022 (for rev.). VF, brown surfaces.
From the RBW Collection, purchased from Jan Lis, 7 December 1996.